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Why am I not christian

As falsas previsões proféticas apenas têm o poder sobre aqueles que foram condicionados a crer sem base na evidência e sobre aqueles segundo o nível de instrução é espantosamente carente de teoria materialista. É como se um rei arcaico falasse e suas palavras mostrassem como verdadeiras, seja como ordens, bênçãos ou maldições que poderiam fazer acontecer, magicamente, o que elas tendem a demonstrar. Acredita-se por medo a constatação imperativa da profecia paterna que remete ao obscurantismo e ao domínio subjetivo e ao triunfo geográfico ou a "experiência divina" revela o conformismo absoluto que está implícito. Em ambos os casos, a fragilidade dos crentes que concordam sem resistência extrai a crueldade do representante (muitas vezes um semi-letrado) em extrair satisfação, vaidade e dinheiro da ilusão, ou seja, de enriquecer e ganhar poder por meio da mentira.
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State Terrorism and Irrational Terror

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. The political intermediaries who are, in all societies, the guarantors of freedom, disappear to make way for a booted and spurred Jehovah who rules over the silent masses or, which comes to the same thing, over masses who shout slogans at the top of their lungs. There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus—in other words, the party—which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Fuhr-erprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism. Mussolini, the Latin lawyer, contented himself with reasons of State, which he transformed, with a great deal of rhetoric, into the absolute. "Nothing beyond the State, above the State, against the State. Everything to the State, for the State, in the State....
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Socialism and religion

Present-day society is wholly based on the exploitation of the vast masses of the working class by a tiny minority of the population, the class of the landowners and that of the capitalists. It is a slave society, since the “free” workers, who all their life work for the capitalists, are “entitled” only to such means of subsistence as are essential for the maintenance of slaves who produce profit, for the safeguarding and perpetuation of capitalist slavery. Religion is one of the forms of spiritual oppression which everywhere weighs down heavily upon the masses of the people, over burdened by their perpetual work for others, by want and isolation. Impotence of the exploited classes in their struggle against the exploiters just as inevitably gives rise to the belief in a better life after death as impotence of the savage in his battle with nature gives rise to belief in gods, devils, miracles, and the like. Those who toil and live in want all their lives are taught by religion to be sub...
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